Extract the information from the metadata automatically.If a PDF file is involved, it will also be transferred directly to your PDF library.Grab a reference directly from a website (PubMed, Google, Amazon, …).Yes their first application is to work with scientific manuscript you get online. Myself, I have abandon the use of a citation only software a few years ago and instead opted for PDF management software. So action must be taken Invest in a good manuscript management system! you can not search by key words within your documents by default. Your PDF contents is not indexed by default i.e.Manually entering each manuscript information (title, authors, abstract, journal, pages, …) in a database is highly inefficient and not a very good use of time.Face it, you will have to use some (most?) of the references for your own papers that you will be writing. Simply filing these PDF in folders is not very useful.There are, of course, a few more observations to be made: If, as starting graduate students, you are following my first key advice of reading on a regular basis scientific manuscripts related to your field of research in general and your project in particular, you’ve probably reach an obvious observation: you are collecting a large number of PDF files very quickly.
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